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Inflation, Earnings Forecasts, and Post-Earnings Announcement DriftSudipta BasuTemple University - Fox School of Business and Management Stanimir MarkovUniversity of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management Lakshmanan ShivakumarLondon Business School September 8, 2009 Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2010 Abstract: We examine whether financial analysts fully incorporate expected inflation in their earnings forecasts for individual stocks. We find that expected inflation proxies, such as lagged inflation and inflation forecasts from the Michigan Survey of Consumers, predict the future earnings change of a portfolio long in high inflation exposure firms and short in low or negative inflation exposure firms, but analysts do not fully adjust for this relation. Analysts’ earnings forecast errors can be predicted using expected inflation proxies, and these systematic forecast errors are related to future stock returns. Overall, our evidence is consistent with the Chordia and Shivakumar (2005) hypothesis that the post-earnings announcement drift is related to investor underestimation of the impact of expected inflation on future earnings change.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 54 Keywords: inflation illusion, analysts, earnings forecasts JEL Classification: G14, G29, M41 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: February 15, 2005 ; Last revised: March 19, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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